Exercise ball device

• US 6,837,835 B2
• Filed: 12/09/2002
• Issued: 01/04/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 12/09/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Yang-Chin Huang
• Original Assignee: Yang-Chin Huang
• Inventors: Huang, Yang-Chin
• Primary Examiner(s): Lucchesi, Nicholas D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): HWANG, VICTOR KENNY
• Application Number:
  US10/316,585
• Publication Number:
  US 20040110611A1
• Time in Patent Office: 757 Days
• Field of Search: 482/82, 482/125, 482121-123, 482/126, 482/130, 482/139, 472/135, 472/134, 472/129, 473/424, 473/425, 473/426, 446/153
• US Class Current: 482/126
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/0442 Anchored at one end only, the other end being manipulated by the user
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/0552 Elastic ropes or bands
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/0557 Details of attachments, e.g. clips or clamps
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2208/0228 Sitting on the buttocks
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 23/0211 moving torso with immobilized lower limbs
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 23/0233 Muscles of the back, e.g. by an extension of the body against a resistance, reverse crunch
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 43/007 Arrangements on balls for connecting lines or cords

Abstract

An exercise ball device has a ball having two retainer rings, two elastic cables, two end hooks disposed on one end of the elastic cables, two U-shaped handles having holes on the top of the arc sides, two stoppers hanged up on two handles, two hook components having two inelastic belts, and two buckles disposed on one end of the inelastic belts.

Claims

1. An exercise ball device comprising:

a ball having two diametric retainer rings mounted to an outer surface of the ball;

two elastic cables;

two end hooks, one end hook disposed on one end of each respective elastic cable;

two U-shaped handles, each having a hole on a top of arcuate sides;

two stoppers, one stopper depending from each respective U-shaped handle; and

two hook components, each hook component comprising an inelastic belt with two ends and two buckles disposed one on each end of the inelastic belt, wherein each U-shaped handles is adjustably secured to a respective elastic cable by frictional engagement between a respective stopper and a portion of the elastic cable passing through the hole in the U-shaped handle, and wherein each retainer ring selectively receives a respective inelastic belt and a respective end hook is removably secured to the buckles on the ends of the inelastic belt.

2. The exercise ball device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the ball can be designed in any size.